Product Description: THE 128 POEMS IN Enduring Ties celebrate family life, collecting in a single anthology the human story through poetic glimpses of our most intimate and committed relationships. Organized in sections that track the course of a single life — growing up, marrying, childbearing, parenting, growing older, parting, and inheriting — these short and accessible poems are drawn from twenty-five-hundred years of world literature: from Sappho to Nikki Giovanni and Elizabeth Bishop, from John Donne to Yehuda Amichai and James Merrill...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "For anyone who has grown children, or for anyone who is a grown child--or on the way to being one--FAMILY REUNION captures the frustrations, anxieties, perplexities, heartaches and, yes, the pride and joy and tenderness that go, inevitably, both ways...read more

Product Description: Book by Reid, D. C.

A collection of poems seeks to confront questions of personal identity and buried family secrets.

Product Description: A collection of original sonnets, dedicated to and about the poet's family members.

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The occasion might be a holiday or a wedding, a christening or a funeral, and a family is gathered on the eve to eat, drink, talk, and cast eyes upon each other. Like all relations, the extended family in Fred Chappell’s Family Gathering has its foibles and strengths―oddballs and know-it-alls, hussies and historians, sparring spouses and model marriages. More than anything, this family loves gossip. Chappell portrays its members one and all in a series of sharply limned character sketches. In this crowd of strangers we may find personalities familiar, maybe too familiar. Perhaps we may even find a glimpse or two of ourselves.Framed by the observations of Elizabeth, “age eight, / Priss-proud in her finery and bored / Bored bored,” the collection introduces ebullient Cousin Marjorie, self-satisfied Uncle Einar, evasive Cousin Lilias, cunning Aunt Wilma, aged Uncle Nahum, convivial Uncle Hobart, confusing Aunt Alicia―set down in poems terse, witty, sympathetic, thoughtful, and satiric. Cousin Elmer “tends the family tree, / Shaping it to topiary rare / And strange as he trims a little here and there / And lops some ugly branches drastically.” Cousin Lola “charts her paramours / On a performance scale from One to Ten / And then announces publicly the scores.” Uncle Brit “cuts you off before you say / Two sentences and lets you know / He knows already what you think / And what you think is pretty dumb.” And Aunt Agnes, ever forgiving, “recognizes what we are, / Yet holds us in affection / As steadfast as the morning star, / As if our faults had no connection / With the persons we are within.”Although there is no continuous story line, the poems in Family Gathering almost amount to a piece of fiction. We leave these lines with full knowledge of the characters―their personalities, prejudices, idiosyncrasies, and intricate relationships with one another. Chappell gives us gossip, but also gossip parodied. If your family is like most, sparks of recognition will leap from every page. With results like those of the Polaroids taken by the family photographer, Chappell “makes us look as scary / As old woodcuts in a bestiary― / But maybe, after all, that’s us.”Varied, humorous, and, above all, true, Family Gathering is pure mean fun. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Poetry. Photographs. A hardback original, EN FAMILLE includes 22 color photographs.

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Product Description: A collection of poetry on the subjects of death and grieving, written as a series of family portraits. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Winner of the 2006 Lannan Foundation Award for Poetry As an elegist of the lives of those who have been changed by hardship and suffering, and especially by war, Bruce Weigl has become one of the most admired American poets of his generation...read more

An entertaining selection of poems profiles the quirky characters who make up a family, from a motley crew of cousins, to a snoring Daddy, to a little boy who refuses to eat his vegetables. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Humes employs language that is always direct, full of zinnias and mine acid, bakery trucks, red-tailed hawks, and maggots. Out of these concrete images, he builds structural and emotional tensions that give his poems a powerful presence...read more

The best-selling author of Bob and Jack: A Boy and His Yak and one of the original creators of Sesame Street presents Hieronymus White, an amazingly talented bird who learns that perfection is not everything.

Poems describe housework, diets, Thanksgiving, superstition, grandfathers, childhood, adolescence, infants, self-image, parenting, grandchildren, and aging

One hundred-and-twenty-five poems by seventy-six modern poets, including John Updike, Anne Sexton, Mary Oliver, and Robert Bly, illuminate the experiences of family life